The Choose Youth parliamentary roundtable yesterday saw around 100 people come together in a warm room (intended to fit around 65) in a hugely positive show for youth work across the board. Several Labour MPs and representatives from Lib Dem Friends of Youth Services...

Recent media focus on the enormous value of sustained, high-quality youth work and its tremendous positive impact on communities is long overdue. Yet at the Institute for Youth Work (IYW) we would hope for some of the more positive stories that happen daily to emerge...

Loneliness a big issue among young people, say youth workers Charity UK Youth polled youth workers and found that 82 per cent felt loneliness was a big issue for the teenagers and young adults they worked with. Despite this almost three quarters (73 per cent)…...

The headline for youth workers from within the new Civil Society Strategy seems to be that the statutory guidance on provision of youth services will be reviewed and that the government “recognises the transformational impact that youth services and trained youth...

Civil Society Strategy: Council leaders welcome youth work focus The strategy, published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on Thursday, includes a commitment by the government to undertake a review of statutory guidance for councils to...

Government to review council youth work statutory duties as part of Civil Society Strategy The strategy, Building a future that works for everyone, published today, states that a review of the guidance for councils to provide “appropriate local youth...

Civil Society Strategy: UK Youth’s response UK Youth welcomes the strong commitment from the Civil Society Strategy in valuing the contribution of young people to society. In our Civil Society Strategy submission back in May 2018, we called for young people to be...

82% of youth workers believe loneliness is a problem for young people A new report published today suggests that youth loneliness is a ‘common experience’ that could affect all young people Young people seem to face barriers when talking about feeling lonely with 73%...

Youth projects share £1.5m to tackle knife crime The latest round of funding from the Home Office’s Anti-Knife Crime Community Fund was originally set at £1m when it launched in May, but has been increased by a further £500,000 due to the number and…...

Good to see the impact work of @KineticYouthltd getting some valued coverage. Hard work always pays off. @Toni_kinetic @GessAird @iyw_tweets Good to see the impact work of @KineticYouthltd getting some valued coverage. Hard work always pays off. @Toni_kinetic...

@derbyuniYWCD met with MP Pauline Latham to discuss the impact of Youth Work and the need for a cross party statutory Youth Service for all YP. Pauline agreed to become an Ambassador for the Youth Work degree at Derby. @DerbyUni @poppytea @DerbyUniVC @natyouthagency...

How to be a trustworthy Charity Last month the Charity Commission published its Trust in Charities, 2018 report. While the big headlines were around public trust in charities decreasing to its lowest point for more than ten years, the focus of the report is actually...